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Old 12-October-2005, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Sylwester Kornowski
In 1996 I foresaw the new state of matter discovered in 2005 by Wolfgang Ketterle from MIT.
Ketterle's experiments demonstrated the existence of a superfluid gas, but it's not like the state was unthought-of before that. The researchers didn't exactly tumble over the new state by accident, they were looking for it, as it had been predicted by theory for some time.
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